The next fact is that the statements of the Bible concerning him are either true or they are untrue. If they are untrue, we do not know anything about him, and therefore can have no definite opinion of him, but merely a conjecture. If we have a favorable and clearly defined opinion of him, it is because we accept the statements of the Bible as substantially true. If we do not accept them as absolutely true, is it not because they conflict with our personal theories?
Yet the fact remains—and it is a fact—that the man revealed by the New Testament accounts of Jesus is the most wonderful man in point of character the world ever saw. If these accounts are untrue, who was able to invent the most surpassing character of history? Could his unlearned followers have combined to create so consistent a unity, so Divine a man? Such a conclusion would seem untenable.
